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The house is located in the outskirts of Coimbra, an area of single family homes in consolidation process. The plot currently enjoys a pleasant view and is a bit isolated, features that will disappear when adjacent buildings rise. Thus the house, elevated as required by the rules, is enclosed seeking one single opening with a porch to the south garden.
The house makes up for its small size by connecting spaces. It seizes the exterior of both the garden and patio, incorporating them through the continuity of the elements. The interiors follow one another, link and relate visually. Always offering distant perspectives and specific visual relations with the outside.
The organization on three floors responds to the classical system of services – social areas – bedrooms, characterized by differences in light and materiality: from the cavernous basement to the overhead light that bathes the stairs and the work area adjacent to it at the top floor. The social floor is organised around the kitchen which the owners, a couple with young children, considered the centre of their activity and their house habits.
The two larger divisions occupy opposite ends: the south living room appropriates the garden and the studio to north closes to the street. Both connect through the courtyard, which belongs to them equally. All plans that connect these spaces are continuous and fluid, and hidden door and window frames fade limits.
The construction of this house was made with a strict economic control and quality, aiming at the correct execution of the details thus allowing, with a very limited budget, surprising results.
HD House is a residential project designed by Yoma Design in 2016. It is located in Taipei City, Taiwan. Photos courtesy of Yoma Design
People are funny and beautiful and wonderful and great and then not so good. We meet someone for the first time and we think they are awesome and we want to be best friends with them and then a week later find out that may not be such a good idea. We come in all shapes and sizes with many colourful personalities. The happy the sad, the good and the bad. As much as people are, for the most part, good, there are still some people we need to keep away from.
Have you ever noticed that when you hang out with a happy person, you just end up being happy too? The same applies to toxic or negative people. If you hang out with them too long, you pick up their bad habits. Not so much fun. Here are 6 types of people you should definitely stay away from.
Steer clear. These people have nothing better to do than talk about everyone at work, in the neighbourhood, at the local café, in their family and in their town. They thrive on gossip and can often be found making stuff up just to have something to talk about. chances are, if they are gossiping that much, they’re talking about you when you’re not around. Keep away.
The ones who talk only about all the horrible things that are happening in their life. Their life is one tragic event after another. Nothing ever goes right in their life and a black cloud looms over their head all day every day. They will grab anybody by the arm to tell them of their shit life. That’s pretty much all they talk about. They are time vampires. Run away fast.
The judge who judges every single person that crosses their path. In their minds, they are perfect and everyone else is beneath them. They waste no time passing judgement on people and have no qualms about doing it either. Everyone is either stupid, ugly or bad. They pass judgment without even getting to know the person and finding out if there is even any truth in the judgment they are passing. They just really don’t care.
Though this person will be fun to hang with in the beginning, after awhile it gets tiring and very hard on your body to maintain this toxic lifestyle of drinking and partying every weekend not to mention, it will be really hard on your wallet. The party animal wants to party all the time, every weekend, with weekends starting on Wednesday and ending on Sunday. Hang on to your wallet, and your liver, and walk away.
They may seem nice at first, they may even be really nice to you and charm you but eventually their true colours show and you see this person is nothing but a bully and a wee bit of a control freak. If you can’t put them in their place, which is a good idea anyway, then it’s time to walk away from this jerk. They are hurting deeply on the inside, as most bullies are, and they will only use you to poke their anger at.
Much like the pity party goer, this person just wants to complain and whine about everything. From the price of gas to the fact that it’s too hot outside. The train is loud, the street is dirty, the kids are noisy, the music is horrible. Nothing makes this person happy and they see bad in everything. no matter how hard you try, they will not see the bright side. Run fast or you’ll end up just like them.
When you see any of these traits come out full force in anyone, it’s time to pack it in and run away. Many people just love to hear their own voices, even if they are saying something kind and loving. There may be a wee bit of hope for them to change, but remember, change comes from them, not you.
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Architecture inherently appears to be at odds with our mobile world – while one is static, the other is in constant motion. That said, architecture has had, and continues to have, a significant role in facilitating the rapid growth and evolution of transportation: cars require bridges, ships require docks, and airplanes require airports.
In creating structures to support our transit infrastructure, architects and engineers have sought more than functionality alone. The architecture of motion creates monuments – to governmental power, human achievement, or the very spirit of movement itself. AD Classics are ArchDaily’s continually updated collection of longer-form building studies of the world’s most significant architectural projects. Here we’ve assembled seven projects which stand as enduring symbols of a civilization perpetually on the move.
AD Classics: Brooklyn Bridge / John Roebling
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Separated by the turbulent waters of the East River, New York City and Brooklyn spent years as independent metropoles before the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge united them. In order to reach the deep seabed and avoid obstructing the waterway, engineer John Roebling designed what would become, until 1903, the world’s longest suspension bridge. His unprecedented decision to use steel cables would lead to its standardization as the structural metal of choice, fuelling a new course in the fields of architecture and civil engineering.
AD Classics: TWA Flight Center / Eero Saarinen
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Built to showcase Trans World Airlines, the TWA Flight Center would ultimately come to represent far more than an architectural advertisement. The soaring, upturned curves of the terminal’s concrete structure were claimed by Eero Saarinen to capture the spirit of flight itself. Although the Flight Center was eventually outmoded by advances in aviation technology, it will soon be transformed into an airport hotel, allowing it to continue serving the traveling public into the future.
AD Classics: Yokohama International Passenger Terminal / Foreign Office Architects (FOA)
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Situated in the second most populous city in Japan, the Yokohama International Passenger Terminal is a masterwork of circulation planning. With a complex, multilayered design achievable only with the aid of computer modeling, the Terminal creates a highly dynamic series of spaces tied together by a deceptively simple circulatory loop. Its transit program is sheltered neatly under an open plaza that connects seamlessly with nearby parks, creating a continuous urban parkscape along the waterfront.
AD Classics: Dulles International Airport / Eero Saarinen
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Already noted for his work on the TWA Flight Center, Eero Saarinen was again commissioned to design a terminal for Washington, D.C.’s Dulles International Airport. Sharing the former’s graceful curves and representation of flight, the Dulles Main Terminal is also noted for the luxurious “mobile lounges” that could shuttle up to ninety passengers from the terminal to their plane. It remains one of the busiest and most iconic airports in the United States to this day.
AD Classics: Bac de Roda Bridge / Santiago Calatrava
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Similar to the Brooklyn Bridge, the Bac de Roda Bridge was conceived as the tie that would bind two disparate communities together. Santiago Calatrava, who posited that the aesthetics and engineering of the bridge required equal consideration, designed a structure that would place experiential quality above practicality. A pair of parabolic arches support the roadway, with an additional pair of canted arches meeting at their apexes to create pedestrian walkways bounded by the cable stays, resulting in a markedly different experience for those passing on foot and those in cars.
AD Classics: Pennsylvania Station / McKim, Mead & White
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Once a monument to American transportation and economic success in the Edwardian Era, New York City’s Pennsylvania Station became the center of controversy and protest upon its destruction in the 1960s. Occupying four full city blocks, the station was envisioned as the new main point of entry into New York; accordingly, rail traffic was stratified into three levels to reduce congestion, with cavernous waiting areas based on the Baths of Caracalla above. Pennsylvania Station’s demolition would directly prompt the creation of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, a turning point in the preservationist movement.
AD Classics: Moscow Metro / Robert Pogrebnoi and Yuriy Zenkivich
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Comprising 182 unique stations, the Moscow Metro is more than a transit system: it is an underground museum of Russian cultural history. Built in five phases, the Metro stations range in style from lavishly ornamented Baroque to sleek, minimalist Modernist. The wide variety of designs represents not only the pre-Communist history of Russia, but the changing attitudes of the Soviet Union from its creation to its twilight years.
The ensemble of the Village House, the existing community center and church – what may seem unspectacular in advance – should prove a convincing spatial dialogue experiment how a previously not existing village center can function in the future and contextual relations can be sustainable. The aim was to reactivate a traditional construction, without stumbling into the depths of a superficial, sentimental architecture. The subtlety of the intervention may be revealed only at second glance.
Territorial context and setting in the settlement structure
The municipality Steinberg am Rofan is dominated by few small scale public buildings, small houses and wide open spaces. The project tries sensitively to respond to this complex situation and embed numerous contextual references to the environment in the existing village structure. Thus the new community center is presented by means of a very precise spatial village setting as a link between private and public space and interweaves calmly and naturally in a local grammar.
Through the setting, a new village square is generated, with a spatial quality that meets the requirement of various usages. The resulting gate effect generates an exciting entrée and ensures the visitor a pleasant “surprise” at the end of the valley.
By the elongated shape of the building and its parallel placement to the road the outside is divided into two areas. At the entrance a forecourt, oriented to south-east and laid out with stones, with high amenity value can also be used by the café in summer. Between school, the old and the new community center, the actual village square stretches and is used for larger events.
Compactness | Interior and exterior spatial quality
Like a traditional farmhouse (living quarter / threshing floor/ stable) the new community center is zoned into three areas. The multi-purpose hall and farmers’ café are accessed via a central foyer, which can divide functions or, in case of a major event, merge space. The front part of the building is organized compact and two-story and opens on the ground floor generously to the village square and the church, while the multi-purpose hall, slightly recessed in the slope, has skylights and a greater degree of privacy.
The internal spatial sequences are designed both exciting and varied with a very high quality of stay, characterized by diverse insights and outlooks. The result is a very simple and reduced space continuum, which has both economic and creative strengths.
Construction and materials | The Best is so close
The consistent use of the building material larch ought to be understood as a vote for the continuation of a local tradition. Static simplicity and a very high degree of prefabrication of the external wall and ceiling elements guaranteed a short construction period. Untreated domestic wood has been consistently used as building material for all parts of the interior fittings and for all facades. The sensory quality of the untreated wood is complemented by measurable criteria, such as pollution-free air and an excellent life cycle assessment. The wood used was provided exclusively and in an exemplary manner from larch forests of the Rofan Mountains. Through the introduction of own resources and also of their own work in terms of a proper value creation (sawyers from the village, drying, processing) a portable guiding principle for the project existed at a very early stage before the beginning of all joint efforts.
Residência RPII is a home located in Itupeva, Brazil. It was designed by Gustavo Arbex in 2015.
Sig Nordal 